Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology

Quiet Powers of the Possible offers an excellent introduction to contemporary French phenomenology through a series of interviews with its most prominent figures.

Guided by rigorous questions that push into the most important aspects of the latest phenomenological research, the book gives readers a comprehensive sense of each thinker’s intellectual history, motivations, and philosophical commitments.

The book introduces readers to debates that have not previously been accessible to the English-speaking world, such as the growing interest in the phenomenological concept of life in its affective and even vital dimensions, the emerging dialogue with the analytic philosophy of mind and language, and reassessments of the so-called theological turn.

The diversity of approaches collected here has its origin in a deeper debate about the conceptual and historical foundations of phenomenology itself. In this way the book offers the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to French phenomenology to have appeared in the English-speaking world to date.

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Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology

Quiet Powers of the Possible offers an excellent introduction to contemporary French phenomenology through a series of interviews with its most prominent figures.

Guided by rigorous questions that push into the most important aspects of the latest phenomenological research, the book gives readers a comprehensive sense of each thinker’s intellectual history, motivations, and philosophical commitments.

The book introduces readers to debates that have not previously been accessible to the English-speaking world, such as the growing interest in the phenomenological concept of life in its affective and even vital dimensions, the emerging dialogue with the analytic philosophy of mind and language, and reassessments of the so-called theological turn.

The diversity of approaches collected here has its origin in a deeper debate about the conceptual and historical foundations of phenomenology itself. In this way the book offers the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to French phenomenology to have appeared in the English-speaking world to date.

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Quiet Powers of the Possible offers an excellent introduction to contemporary French phenomenology through a series of interviews with its most prominent figures.

Guided by rigorous questions that push into the most important aspects of the latest phenomenological research, the book gives readers a comprehensive sense of each thinker’s intellectual history, motivations, and philosophical commitments.

The book introduces readers to debates that have not previously been accessible to the English-speaking world, such as the growing interest in the phenomenological concept of life in its affective and even vital dimensions, the emerging dialogue with the analytic philosophy of mind and language, and reassessments of the so-called theological turn.

The diversity of approaches collected here has its origin in a deeper debate about the conceptual and historical foundations of phenomenology itself. In this way the book offers the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to French phenomenology to have appeared in the English-speaking world to date.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780823264735
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 02/26/2016
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 284
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and author and editor of more than forty books on contemporary philosophy and culture. He is founding editor of the Guestbook Project and has been engaged in developing a postnationalist philosophy of peace and empathy over several decades. His most relevant books on this subject include Strangers, Gods and Monsters (2001), Postnationalist Ireland (1998), Hosting the Stranger (2012), Phenomenologies of the Stranger (2010), Imagination Now (2019), and Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense (2021).

Table of Contents

Contents:

Foreword by Richard Kearney
Acknowledgments

References and Citations

Contributors

Introduction

Jean-Fran ois Courtine
French Phenomenology in Historical Context
Jean-Luc Marion
The Phenomenology of Givenness
Claude Romano
The Fundamental Concepts of Phenomenology
Jocelyn Benoist
Contextualism, Realism, and the the Limits of Husserlian Intentionality
Michel Henry
Material Phenomenology
Renaud Barbaras
The Phenomenology of Life
Fran oise Dastur
Phenomenology and Finitude
Jean-Yves Lacoste
Phenomenology and the Frontier
Emmanuel Falque
The Collision of Phenomenology and Theology
Jean-Louis Chr tien
Attempting to Thing Beyond Subjectivity

Author Bibliographies
Books
Introductory Annotated Bibliographies
English, German, and French Introductions to Phenomenology
Key Terms and References
List of Contributors
Index
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